Obamacare a Hispanic success

12:33 PM,
May 7, 2014

Written by

Raul Reyes

Talk about seeing the glass half-empty. Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services released statistics on the racial and ethnic breakdown of Affordable Care Act sign-ups, generating a slew of negative headlines. "Obamacare's Hispanic enrollment is low," said The Washington Post. And the National Journal weighed in with "Why Hispanics didn't get Obamacare."

Not so fast. Although the Obama administration did not achieve its goal for Latinos enrollments, the full story is more complex. Given the structural obstacles to Hispanic sign-ups, problems with the rollout and ...